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[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Old Testament – III. New Testament – IV. Church History – V. Sociology – VI. Systematic Th…

[German Version] I. Old Testament and Judaism – II. New Testament and Early Christianity – III. Church History – IV. Sociology – V. Systematic Theology and Social Ethics – VI. Law – VII. Practical Theology I. Old Testament and Judaism In the Hebrew Bible, the dissolution of a marriage is the husband's unilateral act. It was originally executed through a divorce formula, pronounced orally (Hos 2:4), but Deut 24:1, 3 knows of the practice of preparing a written document. Later, Jewish law required both a written letter of divorce and authorization by a court. The early rabbis (like the Gospels) did not agree whether serious grounds from the husband's perspective were required in order to declare the divorce ( b. Git. 90a): The discussion revolves around the interpretation of 'erwat dābār (“indecency”) in Deut 24:1. The understanding that no serious grounds were necessary dominated. The reforms attributed to Rabbi Gershom Me'or ha-Golah (960–1028) made the agreement of the wife a necessary condition for divorce. The wife could also initiate a divorce for defined grounds …